recursive aliases

recursive aliases

[Ramana Kumar]

Are recursive aliases in any way allowed?
What about aliases that don't refer to themselves, but refer to other aliases?

Obviously I can just call git from the shell with a ! alias, but
wondering if there's any better way.

Re: recursive aliases

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 09/23/2010 08:07 AM, Ramana Kumar wrote:
> Are recursive aliases in any way allowed?

They're not just not allowed; they're not even possible.

> What about aliases that don't refer to themselves, but refer to other aliases?
> 

Again, this isn't possible. How could you configure something like that?

> Obviously I can just call git from the shell with a ! alias, but
> wondering if there's any better way.

There isn't. The simple aliases are there to let you run certain
commands with certain default parameters as a new command. Normal
commands have no way of calling other commands (or themselves)
recursively. That's what shell-scripts are for.

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Re: recursive aliases

[Andreas Schwab]

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> On 09/23/2010 08:07 AM, Ramana Kumar wrote:
>> Are recursive aliases in any way allowed?
>
> They're not just not allowed; they're not even possible.

$ git config alias.foo foo
$ git foo
fatal: recursive alias: foo

:-)

Andreas.

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